how to quilt piano keys in fabric

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12-20-2014, 04:15 PM

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GEMRM

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Originally Posted by quiltingnd

Gonna have to look up rail road tracks. I used the ribbon candy (for the first time) in another border on this quilt.

Can somebody please tell me what ribbon candy and railroad tracks are? TIA

12-20-2014, 04:56 PM

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My internet is so slow today that I can't grab a link for you but if you Google tutorial piano key quilting I think you will find some good videos. Jamie Whalen I believe was one of them. I plan to use them on a quilt that I'm working on but haven't got that far yet so please share if you find a great solution.

I just watched his video - it was great - he made it look so easy - thanks for the suggestion.

12-20-2014, 05:03 PM

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quiltingnd

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The quilt (well the back of the quilt) in question that I'm working on. Doing it all on my DSM. I'm new to fmq'ing..or anything that isn't plain straight line quilting.

If you look close I have some piano keys quilting done and then some diagonal lines. Please be gentle.

12-21-2014, 03:17 AM

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You are doing a beautiful joband I certainly wouldn't have guessed that you were new to fmq. How did you keep you ribbon candy so nice and even? Mine always looks like it melted in spots, lol.
GEMRM, the ribbon candy is the first curvy lined boarder from the outside. I am not sure what railroad tracks are though

12-21-2014, 06:38 AM

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I don't know of an easy way... but it looks so good, it's worth the trouble! I didn't want to cut the stitching with each line, so instead I did a LOT of turning the quilt.

12-21-2014, 06:46 AM

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quiltingnd

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You are doing a beautiful joband I certainly wouldn't have guessed that you were new to fmq. How did you keep you ribbon candy so nice and even? Mine always looks like it melted in spots, lol.

Thank you. There are a few spots in the ribbon candy where I lost my rhythm and goofed. So it's not perfect by a long shot.

12-21-2014, 04:56 PM

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Sure looks good to me!

12-22-2014, 05:14 AM

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Can somebody please tell me what ribbon candy and railroad tracks are? TIA

I am not familiar with railroad tracks but I can tell you the ribbon candy design is so fun and easy to do. Just run a line going back and forth with gentle curves. Then go back up crossing the curves. Wherever the line is crossed, it looks like a ribbon. Once I was quilting inside a diamond block, I widened the curves as needed, and it really did look good. Try it.

12-22-2014, 06:12 AM

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Railroad track quilting - https://video.search.yahoo.com/video...t=mozilla&tt=b

Ribbon Candy Quilting - http://theinboxjaunt.com/2014/06/10/...uilt-tutorial/

12-22-2014, 10:03 AM

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Mark lines to look like piano key border. I make piano key borders alot and either straight stitch every three or four inches apart or just FMQ across them. Depends on my mood at the time.